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Necessary techniques .......................................................................................... 4
Burning Butterfly: Effect and method ................................................................. 5
Variants .................................................................................................................. 7
How to make the butterfly..................................................................................... 8
Introduccin........................................................................................................... 9
Tcnicas necesarias ........................................................................................... 10
Mariposa de fuego: Efecto y mtodo ................................................................. 11
Variantes .............................................................................................................. 13
Como hacer la mariposa ..................................................................................... 14
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Necessary techniques
Hindu Force
Place the card you want to force on the bottom of the deck. Hold the
deck by the long sides with your right hand. With your left hand, take a
few cards at the top of the deck and drop them in your palm. Repeat
this movement several times, letting the cards fall in the palm of your
left hand. Ask a spectator to stop you at any time. Show the bottom
card of the stack that holds your right hand. If you look closely, the
bottom card that you have prepared never left his position, but the mix
is deceptive and your audience will think the chosen card was not
prepared before. If you are left-handed, perform the force on the
opposite side.
Make an overhand shuffle holding the bottom card with your middle
and ring fingers. When you cut the deck for the shuffle, these fingers
keep the card in place, allowing you to mix the rest of the deck. Repeat
several times, the bottom card never left his position, creating a great
illusion: The deck was shuffled, except for the bottom card.
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Burning butterfly
The spectator selects a card, which is signed and returned to the deck.
Subsequently, the deck is placed inside the box, and is approached to
a source of fire: a candle or lighter. When removing the cards inside
the box, there is a slightly bended one and when you take it out, has
his back burned: The card signed by the spectator.
That is the traditional way of presenting the effect, but lets talks about
my version. Instead of bringing the box to a source of fire, carry the fire
directly to the box. Place a figure of a butterfly made in flash paper on
the box and light it on fire. Undoubtedly, much more dramatic, visual
and accompanied by a good story will draw excellent reactions, I say
this from experience. If you do not have flash paper, you can do it on a
piece of plain paper, even better if it have colors. It should be a small
piece, so that the figure does not take a long time to burn.
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playing card and we dont want that. I recommend you try with several
cards until you are satisfied and in addition that you use a candle, my
trials and experience have shown me that is the best source of fire to
perform this task. What we are looking for is a slightly bend letter with
a uniform burn on the back, unmarked face and without bubbles.
Once you have the card, you are ready to begin. Place the card in
force position and proceeds to shuffle and do the Hindu force. Turn up
the stack that has the, so the face is visible, and place it on the table to
be signed. It is important to fully control the situation. We do not want
that any viewer take the card and watch his back. You have to make
believe that it is a completely normal car, so act naturally.
After it is signed, take the card face up and place it on the center of the
deck and put it in the box. When handling the deck with the burned
card inside, take it tightly and press it, so the separation produced by
the curvature of the burn card will not be created. We need to make
believe that everything is normal, remember?
At this point the effect is ready. You simply have to create suspense
and prepare the revelation. Tell an appropriate story and place the
flash paper figure on the box. Burn it and it will disappear in a very
visual flare. Remove the cards from the case, this time taking them
lightly. Now we want that the burn card create a small gap in the deck.
We want to show that something changed. Go to that card and
surprise your audience: the burn card is signed one.
If you dont want to damage the box or cards when you burn the paper
figure, use a foil container (such as the one that some candles have) or
Burning Butterfly Free Trick
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ashtray. But the effect is more spectacular when these items are not
present. I recommend you to use an old box for this situation.
Variants
There is a variant in which the card can be examined, but not signed.
You have to choose which one accommodates you more. In this case,
you use a duplicate of the burned card, but this is intact.
You will proceed by placing the burned card on top, with about four or
five cards over it to hide the card. Put the duplicate in forcing position
Make the Hindu force of the card and you can give it to be examined
(Remember that this cant be signed). Complete the deck while the
spectator examines the card. Ask the viewer to deposit the card on top
the deck. Proceed to make a cut and complete. This way the forced
card will be roughly in the center of the deck and the burned one, four
or five cards underneath. They are in similar positions.
After this, the effect proceeds normally. When searching for the card,
go straight to the burned one and show that is the same card they
chose. The strength of this version is that the spectators saw that the
playing card was normal and now appears burned. I assure you that
the impact will make they forget any possible suspicion that there is a
duplicate card.
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Mauro Santelices
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Tcnicas necesarias
Forzaje hind
Realiza una mezcla por arrastre sujetando la carta inferior con tus
dedos medio y anular. Al cortar la baraja para realizar la mezcla, estos
dedos mantienen la carta en su lugar, permitindote mezclar el resto
de la baraja. Reptelo varias veces, la carta inferior nunca dejara su
posicin, creando una muy buena ilusin: La baraja fue mezclada, a
excepcin de una carta.
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Mariposa de fuego
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varias cartas hasta que quedes satisfecho y adems que uses una
vela, mis pruebas y experiencia me han demostrado que es la mejor
fuente de fuego para realizar esta tarea. Lo que buscas es una carta
levemente doblada, con una quemadura uniforme en el dorso, sin
marcas por la cara y sin burbujas.
Una vez que tengas la carta, ests listo para comenzar. Coloca la
carta en posicin de forzaje y procede a realizar las mezclas con
control y el forzaje hind. Gira el montn que tiene la carta hacia
arriba, de tal forma de que la cara sea visible, y colcala en la mesa
para que sea firmada. Es importante controlar totalmente esta
situacin. No queremos que algn espectador tome la carta y vea su
dorso. Debes hacer creer que es una carta totalmente normal. Acta
con naturalidad.
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Variantes
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